Live Play Data

Mirkwood Bats

· Creature — Bat · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

4539

Decks Running

1937

Median Cast Turn

6.0

Drawn → Played

68%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=656

13%

54%

T6-9

12%

T10+

Median 6.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 21% (88 / 656 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

4541 brought · 1605 players

Brought to game

4541

Ever drawn

969

Reached battlefield

656

Still on board at game end

376

Once cast, 57% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +11.3pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=594) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=3015).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=291).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +15.3pp; 95% confidence interval +11.3pp to +19.3pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1064 instances

2.1%

Library

35.3%

Battlefield

31.9%

Graveyard

5.8%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mr. House, President and CEO 145 decks
2 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 114 decks
3 Smaug the Impenetrable 96 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 81 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 63 decks
6 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 59 decks
7 Marneus Calgar 49 decks
8 Sam, Loyal Attendant 47 decks
9 Ygra, Eater of All 45 decks
10 Smaug, Wicked Worm 40 decks

Card text

Mirkwood Bats

Creature — Bat

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Common · Illustrated by John Tedrick

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 740,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.